But most of all, he chiefly reckons by
A private chance,—the death of his curst[494] wife;
This is to him the dearest memory,
And th' happiest accident of all his life.20
FOOTNOTES:
[481] Not in MS.
[482] So Isham copy.—Omitted in ed. A.
[483] So Isham copy.—Eds. A, B, C "old."
[484] Boulogne was captured by Henry VIII. in 1544.
[485] The reference probably is to the visitation of 1551.